Dinis Guarda interviews the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist Ai-Da in this new citiesabc YouTube Podcast series.

Ai-Da combines the latest computing and AI innovations intertwined with what humans best excel at: creativity. Created in 2019 and invented by visionary art creator Aidan Meller with the collaboration of the University of Oxford, the University of Leeds and created by Art Engineered.

Ai-Da can draw things from life using cameras in her eyes, a mechanical arm developed at Leeds University, and algorithms developed by scientists at the University of Oxford. A true milestone in AI innovation and human collaboration. Here we present Ai-Da’s views on self-awareness, art and her role in the world.

Interview Questions

1. Ai-Da, would you like to introduce yourself?
2. You are named after the English mathematician Ada Lovelace, the daughter of poet Lord Byron. She has been called "the first computer programmer" for writing as an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. How do you see computing after her?
3. As an artist, how do you define art?
4. You also write poetry which is highly correlated with meta-physics and philosophy. When considered alongside art, how important are these three areas for humanity?
5. What is your inspiration as an artist?
6. How do you see the world and the bridge between humans and machines?
7. What would be the highlights of your career so far?

Ai-Da Biography

Ai-Da was completed in 2019 and invented by art specialist Aidan Meller. Ai-Da is the result of a collaborative project between the University of Leeds, Aidan Meller and the University of Oxford. Ai-Da makes her pictures by scanning an object or a person through her cameras. AI processes send messages to her robotic arm that allow her to make abstract line drawings that look like constellations. These are then taken as finished artworks or are fed through other neural networks to generate an outline for her sculptures and paintings. Each work is unique and the pathways that created it are deleted post-hoc so they can’t be replicated. Despite the constraint, it should be noted that Ai-Da is capable of turning around a new work every 45 minutes.

Her sculptures are rendered from her drawings by a computer scientist based in Sweden, 3-D printed in wax, and cast in bronze. As for the paintings, Oxford University researcher Aidan Gomez plots the co-ordinates of the drawings onto the Cartesian plane, and runs them through another neural network to create abstract paintings, which are then executed by an actual human female painter, Suzie Emery.

Ai-Da’s creators bill her as the world’s first robot artist, and she’s the latest AI innovation to blur the boundary between machine and artist; a vision of the future suddenly becoming part of our present. She has a robotic arm system and human-like features, is equipped with facial recognition technology and is powered with artificial intelligence. She is able to analyze an image in front of her, which feeds into an algorithm to dictate the movement of her arm, enabling her to produce sketches. Her goal, as we could hear from Ai-Da, is creativity.

Aidan Meller Biography

The leading art dealership in Oxford, over the past two decades Aidan Meller has sustained high acclaim for the calibre of work displayed. With a reputation for showing internationally acclaimed artists of the Western canon, the gallery also works closely with collectors to provide expert consultancy services.

Aidan Meller has developed over the past twenty years to represent significant estates and important artists including Camille Pissarro, Pablo Picasso, and Marc Chagall. Since its inception, the gallery has displayed an academically rigorous, ambitious programme of shows from the Bloomsbury Set to Impressionism, and the St Ives School. The gallery has hosted historically significant exhibitions including a substantial collection of significant Pre-Raphaelite School drawings discovered by Aidan Meller in 2013.

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www.ai-darobot.com
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Ai-Da Robot Youtube channel
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The Intersection of Art and AI | Ai-Da Robot | TEDxOxford
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Ai-Da drawing
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